http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9617 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:14:51 GMT 2026-04-06T05:14:51Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9672 DISCOURSE-DRIVEN MEANING CONSTRUCTION IN NEOSEMANTIC NOUN-TO-VERB CONVERSIONS [MEANING CONSTRUCTION IN NOUN-TO-VERB CONVERSIONS] Augustyn, Rafał Neosemantic noun-to-verb conversions such as beer → to beer, door → to door, pink → to pink, etc., constitute a particularly interesting field of study for Cognitive Linguistics in that they call for a discourse-guided and context-based analysis of meaning construction. The present article takes a closer look at the cognitive motivation for the conversion process involved in the noun-verb alterations with a view to explaining the semantics of some conversion formations in relation to the user-centred discourse context. The analysis developed in this article draws from the combined insights of Fauconnier and Turner’s (2002) Conceptual Integration Theory and Langacker’s (2005, 2008) Current Discourse Space. Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9672 2014-01-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9673 RESEARCHING MEANING, CONTEXT AND COGNITION EDITORIAL TO RIL SPECIAL ISSUE Witczak-Plisiecka, Iwona Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9673 2014-01-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9671 THE PRAGMATICS OF EMOTIONS IN INTERLINGUISTIC HEALTHCARE SETTINGS Farini, Federico The main question addressed here is: what types of interpreters’ actions cut out, or make relevant, migrant patients’ emotions? Our data is based on a corpus of 300 interlinguistic medical interactions in Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Italian in two public hospitals in Italy. The conversations involve one Italian healthcare provider, an interpreter and a migrant patient. The corpus is analyzed drawing upon Conversation Analysis, studies on Dialogue Interpreting and Intercultural Pragmatics. Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9671 2014-01-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9670 SENTENCE ADVERBIALS AND EVIDENTIALITY Hirschová, Milada The paper deals with expressions of evidence (originating in perception, inference or reported information) and their role in sentence/utterance pragmatic modification. It concentrates on the role of the so-called sentence adverbials, showing them as scoping / focussing elements the main function of which is a/ to mark focus of an utterance b/ to support speaker´s reasoning. Formal properties of evidential expressions are dissimlar to that point that they cannot be comprised into a unified category. Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/9670 2014-01-25T00:00:00Z